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 "Spectacular."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"This is IMAX and Ron Howard’s epic retelling of NASA’s heroic near-tragedy has been blown up to wonderous proportions to behold even while the film itself has been chopped down just as much."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"This story is larger-than-life to begin with, so it is enhanced by the new super-size format. The movie grabs you and doesn't let go for nearly two hours."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"If you thought Tom Hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star, wait until you've seen him eight stories tall."
-- Ted Fry, SEATTLE TIMES
"Big Breakthrough! First time a 35mm pic is blown up to fit the 8-story tall IMAX screen."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"Suffice to say that after seeing this movie in IMAX form, you'll be more acquainted with the tiniest details of Tom Hanks' face than his wife is."
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
"The kind of history lesson that you wouldn't mind seeing again and again, no matter the format."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
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"The transfer to the IMAX screen diminishes none of the film's drama, which was always much more about human emotions than technology."
-- David Barton, SACRAMENTO BEE
"On a purely pictorial level, this is one of the best-looking IMAX movies ever."
-- David Chute, L.A. WEEKLY
"The sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in IMAX dimensions, as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins."
-- David Ehrenstein, NEW TIMES
"Could I have been more geeked when I heard that Apollo 13 was going to be released in IMAX format? In a word: No."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
"An irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand scale."
-- Nigam Nuggehalli, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Remains a solid, if somewhat heavy-handed, account of the near-disaster...done up by Howard with a steady, if not very imaginative, hand."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
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"[Apollo 13] looks bold and crisp on the big screen, and the sound has never sounded better -- perhaps couldn't have ever sounded better, because IMAX uses some 70 speakers."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"It's an entertaining movie, and the effects, boosted to the size of a downtown hotel, will all but take you to outer space."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"The special effects and many scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original, while the Oscar-winning sound and James Horner's rousing score make good use of the hefty audio system."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"It's a great American adventure and a wonderful film to bring to IMAX."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"The re-release of Ron Howard's Apollo 13 in the IMAX format proves absolutely that really, really, really good things can come in enormous packages."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Blowing up some 35mm films to an image 10 times larger could magnify their plot faults and performance shortcomings. But Apollo 13, with its taut cast, script and direction, profits from the process."
-- Jane Sumner, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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